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WORKHORSE PRINTMAKERS: AN EVENING of LETTERPRESS

WORKHORSE PRINTMAKERS: AN EVENING of LETTERPRESS

Last Thurs­day I was invited to the new stu­dio belong­ing to our friends Jen­nifer Blanco and John Ear­les at Work­horse Print­mak­ers for an AIGA stu­dent work­shop: AN EVENING of LETTERPRESS. They were lovely hosts and pro­vided a wealth of knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence to guide us through the process — even for an appre­hen­sive...
UNDER THE SHEETS

UNDER THE SHEETS

Here is a peek under the sheets, if you will – a look into the design direc­tion I chose to update the blog with this time around. I wanted to cre­ate an Americana-style theme based on the col­ors used in World War I era Lib­erty Bond posters. I’ve long loved the his­toric...
LAVATORY ENVY

LAVATORY ENVY

Brass, Car­rara mar­ble, sub­way tiles (the old-looking ones), warm woods, indus­trial light­ing… Jeff and Jason’s home-away-from-Brooklyn was fea­tured on Design­Sponge yes­ter­day, and I must say – these dudes did their bath­room right. I am quite envi­ous. Reminds me of one of my favorite places, not just for the liba­tions but for their...
NEW YEARS 2012

NEW YEARS 2012

Steven, Jes and I spent New Year’s in New York with Marc and Ian and had the best time ever. Nobody does New Year’s Eve like NYC. Shoot, nobody does New Year’s Adam like NYC. (Thanks Ian, for that one… I love New Year’s Adam!) I got  a new badass...
Future Primitive and More: CTRL + ART + CREATE

Future Primitive and More: CTRL + ART + CREATE

I’m feel­ing par­tic­u­larly happy and excited today to announce the first unveil­ing of Future Prim­i­tive, my line of rub­ber stamps. It’s going to be held at Ctrl + Art + Cre­ate on Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 5, 2011, from 10 a.m. — 2 p.m at the Heights The­ater. I’ll have prêt-à-porter stamps for teach­ers and peo­ple...
COOL GIRL.

COOL GIRL.

Not so sea­son­ally appro­pri­ate, but I love this look. Really, I just love her legs. This is what I imag­ine my legs will look like every time I buy a new pair of pants, then I get mad that the pants aren’t work­ing. Is she an f’ing bal­le­rina or what? Leg envy....
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Hello world!

If you’re read­ing this, you may be slightly con­fused. Back in April, for no good rea­son actu­ally (besides the fact that I thought I couldn’t afford a self-hosted web­site any longer), I can­celled hellodefine.com and my email address jessica@hellodefine.com — then this morn­ing I woke up, decided that was a really dumb thing to have done, and...

CHRISTINA PERRI: arms

This song has been in my head for the past week and I’ve just been singing the wrong words over and over, to the right melody at least. It’s been play­ing on my Bon Iver Pan­dora sta­tion and when it came on today, (like 5 min­utes ago) I made sure to get the name and...
Lauren Fleishman: love ever after

Lauren Fleishman: love ever after

I was the kind of girl that fell in love right away. So the next day I would tell my friend, ter­rific, I’m in love already! But after my first date with Sol I did not feel that way. I think it only proved to this day that you cant judge right away. It may...
the INVISIBLE MOTHER

the INVISIBLE MOTHER

I’m headed to a baby shower this after­noon for a friend whose baby I am eagerly antic­i­pat­ing meet­ing. In their honor, here is a mother-and-child related post. Maybe you’ll find it as enter­tain­ing as I do, and you’ll click through Retronaut’s link to see the rest—because there are more and they’re good. ‘This was a...
MMXII // RESOLUTION I

MMXII // RESOLUTION I

2011 was a big, excit­ing year. I was mar­ried, trav­eled to for­eign coun­tries: Greece, France, Ams­ter­dam, became a yogi thanks to Joy and Joy, started eat­ing health­ier than ever, became ded­i­cated to car­dio and weight-lifting thanks to Jes and the right gym (that does flash mobs!), lost weight and toned my body, we bought our...
MODERN FARMHOUSE

MODERN FARMHOUSE

Have you seen this Austin home tour on Apart­ment Ther­apy? It’s a good one, fea­tur­ing the home of Roger and Chris Stout-Hazard of Design Haz­ards which fea­tures a few of my favorite things includ­ing Amer­i­cana, indus­trial, and farm­house… we have the same buffalo-plaid style cur­tains in our liv­ing room (ours are from Pot­tery Barn kids, they’re black­out…...
Jack Rudy Cocktail Company

Jack Rudy Cocktail Company

In the past cou­ple years, we’ve been intro­duced to more and more spe­cialty liba­tions cour­tesy of our city’s best bar­tenders, you know who they are if you’re a reg­u­lar… the folks at Anvil. A friend of mine, Leslie, is another trusted source that shares her beer wis­dom on her site: Lush­tas­tic. We’re learn­ing more and...

Sneak Peek of CTRL+ART+CREATE 2011: 2nd Annual Art Festival | AIGA Houston Blog

WEDDING TRAILER x 31 FILMS

WEDDING TRAILER x 31 FILMS

LET ME FREAK OUT ON YOU GUYS FOR JUST A MINUTE. Aaron, our super duper superbly awe­some cin­e­matog­ra­pher @31FILMS just sent us a sneak peak of our wed­ding film, and it’s blow­ing my brains out. From the minute I heard the song he’d cho­sen I got goose­bumps, it’s Holocene by Bon Iver from his newest...
HELL YES, BOOTS.

HELL YES, BOOTS.

CAN I jus­tify pur­chas­ing these Burberry Buckle-Detailed Leather Knee Boots, $795 (Net-A-Porter) by not­ing that I would wear them nearly every day for at least five years, putting them at roughly $0.67/wear. That’s only wear­ing them 20 days of each month! VIA REFINERY29: Fall’s 15 Best Boots Ever!.
F YES SASHA OWEN

F YES SASHA OWEN

IT’S TIME TO REVEAL A GIRL CRUSH. I’ve seen this girl and her long, blonde curls in my inbox almost daily. So f what I said about ombre hair, I’m not an ombre hair per­son; I’m keep­ing goldilocks around a lit­tle longer. Until I can have bouncy volu­mi­nous curls, and some­times not even brush it....
FALL IS THE BEST AND YOU KNOW IT.

FALL IS THE BEST AND YOU KNOW IT.

I absolutely adore this leather jacket, from Rugby: We love the Jemime jack­ets restrained cool, achieved by bas­ing it off a too-cool vin­tage pro­to­type that we updated in a slim fit from bur­nished, dis­tressed leather for an effort­less rugged-sexy vibe. Straight point col­lar. Off-center zip front. Long sleeves with cov­ered snap cuffs. Angled welt pocket at...
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